EPA Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program

How to Apply for the 2024 Notice of Funding Opportunity

Verify your organization has an active
registration on both SAM.gov and
Grants.aov. If you do not have an active
registration, the EPA encourages all
interested applicants to register and/or
re-activate early as there can be delays
in these processes.

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Visit the Clean Heavv-Dutv Vehicle (CHDV)
website for more information on how
to apply for a 2024 Clean Heavy-Duty
Vehicles Grant, as well as tools and
resources to assist you in your transition to
zero-emission vehicles.

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Discuss your 2024 CHDV Grant application
with all of the necessary parties
(transportation director, school board,
superintendent, utility provider, state or
municipal offices, etc.) to make sure every
part of the application is covered and
proper planning is in place.

Review application information on
the CHDV website and prepare your
application package for submittal in
accordance with the 2024 CHDV Grants
Checklist on the next page. Email
cleanhdvehicles@epa.gov with any
questions not answered in the
Questions and Answers document.

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Sign up for the EPA Clean Heaw-Dutv
Program News email listserv to stay up
to date on the CHDV Program, including
webinars and resource materials.

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Submit your complete 2024 CHDV Grant
application package via Grants.gov by

July 25,2024, at 11:59 p.m. ET. EPA
encourages applicants to submit
packages before the deadline.

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EPA Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program

APPENDIX B-Application Submission Checklist

The application package must include all of the following
materials. Use this checklist to ensure that all required
materials have been included in your application package.

~	SF-424, Application for Federal Assistance

~	SF-424A, Budget Information for Non-Construction Programs

~	EPA Form 4700-4, Pre-Award Compliance Review Report for All
Applicants Requesting Federal Assistance

~	EPA Form 5700-54, Key Contacts Form

~	Application Narrative Attachment Form (15-page limit)

~	Cover Page

~	Workplan

~	Project Summary and Approach

~	Environmental Results—Outcomes,

Outputs and Performance Measures

~	Programmatic Capability and Past Performance

~	Environmental and Disadvantaged Communities

~	Project Readiness

~	Project Sustainability

~	Climate Resilience

~	Job Quality and Workforce Development

~	Funding Beyond the Mandatory Cost Share

~	Budget

~	Applicant Fleet Description (use CHDV Supplemental Application
Template - EPA Form Number 5900-689)

~	Utility PartnershipTemplate (if applicable)

~	Documentation of School Board Awareness (if applicable)

~	Documentation of Third-Party Approval (if applicable)

~	Intertribal Consortium Documentation (if applicable; use "Other
Attachments Form")

~	Cost Share Commitment Letters (use "Other Attachments

The application package
may include any of the
following materials. Use
"Other Attachments
Form" in Grants.gov to
attach and submit the
following documents.

~	Project Team Biographies

~	Resumes

~	Negotiated Indirect
Cost Rate Agreement
(if applicable)

~ Partnership Letters, if
applicable

If you have any 2024 Clean
Heavy-Duty Vehicles Grant
application questions that are
not answered in the Questions
and Answers document, please
email cleanHDvehicles@epa.gov.
Technical assistance
questions can be sent to
CleanHDVehiclesTA@NREL.gov.

For more information
on the EPA Clean
Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Grant Program, please
visit epa.gov/clean-heavy-duty-
vehicles-proaram.

United States
Environmental Protection
Agency

EPA-420-F-24-015
April 2024

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